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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle (Nexus))
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Few Good Programs
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Date: 27 Nov 90 21:17:32 GMT
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In article <APPEL.90Nov26212338@headcrash.ocf.Berkeley.EDU> appel@ocf.Berkeley.EDU (Shannon D. Appel) writes:
>Can anyone tell me if anything like the following is available:
>(I'm looking for shareware or public domain here...)
>
>2) A tar program for the IBM
>
>Looked at the good ftp sites, and haven't seen either or these...

DETAR11.ARC  PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Process a TAR file on PC
PAX2EXE.ZIP  PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  PAX v2.0 - Unix-like tar and cpio for MS-DOS
PDTAR.ARC    PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Read/write TAR files on PC
TAR.ZIP      PD1:<MSDOS.FILUTL>  Unix-compatible TAR archive maker/extractor
TARREAD.EXE  PD1:<MSDOS.STARTER> Read Unix TAR files on a PC

These are all available at simtel20.army.mil (26.2.0.74) in the directory
listed above (PD1:<MSDOS.xxxxx> )  or at wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4)
in mirrors/msdos/xxxxx.
 
There are several mail servers that will process the ftp commands for those who
have access to e-mail, but not FTP.  Addresses are:
 
In North America:
 
          LISTSERV@VM1.NODAK.EDU   North Dakota State University.
          LISTSERV@VM.ECS.RPI.EDU  Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
 
    In the body of the mail have the command:
    GET PDGET HELP PCSERV-L
 
Also:
          BITFTP@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
 
   In the body of the mail have the command:
   HELP
 
In Europe use:
 
          TRICKLE@TREARN    ("Turgut Kalfaoglu"   <TURGUT@TREARN>)
          TRICKLE@IMIPOLI   ("Marco Gandolfi"     <MARCO@IMIPOLI>)
          TRICKLE@BANUFS11  ("Michel Daulie"      <DAULIE@BANUFS11>)
          TRICKLE@AWIWUW11  ("Gustaf Neumann"     <NEUMANN@AWIWUW11>)
          TRICKLE@DB0FUB11  ("Wolfram Fassbender" <EARNIE@DB0FUB11>)
          TRICKLE@EB0UB011  ("Oriol Robert"       <ZCCBORR@EB0UB011>)
(note:  these are EARN/BITNET style addresses.  If anyone has Internet
        style addresses, please let me know.  TRICKLE@TREAN.BITNET might
        work, but not sure).
 
    In the body of the mail have the command:
    /HELP

Much of the above can be found in the help files associated with each mail
server.
 
If anyone knows of any other mirrored archives of Simtel20, please let me
know and I'll add them to this generic response.
 
Thanks.
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